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...fancied himself as "a maker of Governors," across the State avoiding Knoxville, where they had once owned the Journal, up the Smoky Mountains to Asheville, N. C., where they had defrauded defunct Central Bank & Trust Co. of $1,300,000, and down the other side to Raleigh and to prison...
...bank's bonds without making settlement, for depriving the bank of $45,000 proceeds from an Asheville municipal note issue, for fraudulently obtaining $300,000 worth of the institution's certificates of deposit, a Buncombe County judge sentenced Luke Sr. to from six to ten years in prison, Luke Jr. to from two to six years or a $25,000 fine. Still loudly protesting their innocence the Leas fled over the mountains to Clarksville, in their native Tennessee. There they directed their Nashville Tennessean by telephone, played golf, maintained that "if a crime had been committed, they were...
...Some San Franciscans: "Chicken tracks!" Said Mrs. Moody on how she got started on her in terpretations: "I played a phonograph record. ... I had a pencil in my hand and unconsciously I traced a pattern of the rhythm." Convicts in the educational department of California's San Quentin Prison voted as the most outstanding woman in public life Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, then hung an oil painting of her on the walls of their school building...
...Sing Sing, when a convict begged for news of his sick baby, prison authorities teletyped a query to Newark police headquarters. A motorcycle policeman sped to the convict's home. Back clicked his report to Sing Sing: "Baby recovering from mild case of measles. In no danger...
Philbrick turned out to be a difficult prisoner to manage. Although his captors had no wish to use force to keep him quiet in his Adams House prison, they had to bind him before they could get any photographs. However, in spite of these precautions, Philbrick succeeded in escaping shortly before six o'clock...